Introduction
1 Beginnings
2 Consolidation of provision: elite practice
3 Light and power: the ‘Carolingian moment’
4 Lighting, lords and peasants in post-Carolingian Europe
5 Lights and social formation in the central Middle Ages
6 Lights in the later Middle Ages: from devotion to destruction
Conclusions
Index
Paul Fouracre is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at the University of Manchester
‘[A] meticulously documented survey’.
The Journal of Religious History
‘Paul Fouracre’s new book is a breath of fresh air. It is a rare
historical study that details the “material consequences of belief”
in medieval Europe, combining cultural and religious history with a
study of medieval economy, agrarian production and trade, and
social organisation… To read Fouracre is to witness a master
medievalist at work’.
English Historical Review
'[for] an intellectual historian, this book’s most valuable
contribution is that it inspires us to consider the material
consequences of the ideas we study, just as it asks economic
historians to attend to how ideas and culture may affect production
and exchange. Fouracre’s investigation provides a good example of
both the potential and the limitations of such an undertaking and
provides methodological models. As such, it should be read by
everyone interested in the interplay of ideas and social and
economic realities.'
Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies volume 98, number 1
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